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It's not that hard to get one.
It is probably easy if you know people there. Unfortunately I don’t and neither my German friends (already asked on German IRC etc). It’s hard to find a way into that community if don’t already know English speaking people who are in this niche. In case anyone has an invite to give, I’d be happy to use it: hn@ .dev :)
You know the Digg self destruct was 13 years ago? Time sure does fly. I guess it's time for reddit to complete the cycle as well.
was digg much smaller than reddit today?
I wonder who will take reddits lunch and how far they will go with it.
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Reddit can largely automate moderation. It's not hard, but... there are a lot of not hard things that Reddit screws up. If this was even 1 year ago, things would be different. But it's not. (I moderate a major subreddit)
Why work for free?
There is something wrong with me that in the 90-9-1 rule, I need to be the 1%. I see a forum, and I can't stop myself from commenting or posting. Getting invited to moderate happens naturally after that.
I wish I was the 90%.
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> Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Back in the day, that was the World Wide Web. Federated gardens are a modern invention.
Whippersnappers and their dubya-dubya-dubya's. Reddit is nothing but a glorified Usenet!
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was digg much smaller than reddit today?
Yes, but they were still the biggest player. Reddit took what they gave up and grew from there. I wonder who will take reddits lunch and how far they will go with it.
;# code starts here
written in perl.
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But what is the argument here? 237k retweets is a lot, sure. This tweet from 2020 has 883k retweets and is just four photos: https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1296701109340237824 So does 237k retweets in 2023 mean the network is as vital as it was in 2020? I have no idea what basis this argument is being made on.
Does it mean Twitter is dead though? That's the basis of this thread.
A hard problem to solve. But if there was ever and opportunity for twitter to use its resources to create a competing platform it would be right now. They could create “twitter groups” and basically mimic the functionality of Reddit. They could even start it as a separate service and slowly merge them (to avoid any negative preconception of the twitter as a brand).
What’s so hard to solve!? Forums still and can be easily built, it existed years before reddit or social media, in fact, I personally think it’s better to have separate sites specialized in each niche than one giant platform trying to monopolize that, and proceed to call itself “front page of the internet” or whatever it’s called.